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Multiple law enforcement agents raided the New Deal Shooting Sports sports south of Deming Tuesday morning and reportedly uncovered a bunker stored with ammunition.

four armored personnel carriers and two helicopters participated in the morning raid.

Agents from ICE, DEA, DHS and Luna County participated in the raid.

For as long as I've known Rick Reese (four years, seems like 10), he has been prognosticating a meltdown of the American economy—not just a recession or a depression, but the Big One. When you have an $8 trillion national debt,...

Rick and wife Terri Reese are managers of New Deal Shooting Sports, located about six miles southeast of Deming. Their large showroom...

New Deal is not only a weapons depot and ammo dump...

Customers were still showing up at the business into Tuesday afternoon, puzzled at the store's sudden closing.

"Yesterday, I found out they had opened up in this location," said Las Cruces resident Bruce Cranmer. "I needed some reloading supplies, so I went down to pick them up."

The indictment against the Reeses is the result of a investigation spearheaded by Homeland Security Investigations that later expanded to include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. attorney's Las Cruces office.

The indictment alleges that in July 2010, Ryin Reese sold 18 firearms to an individual who arranged to smuggle them into Mexico -- and into the hands of Mexican cartel members. He also helped a straw purchaser -- someone who buys firearms under false pretenses -- complete ATF forms, according to the indictment. On Aug. 28, 2010, after receiving a notice from law enforcement that a firearm sold by New Deal had been recovered, Terri Reese told the straw purchaser about the notice and expressed concern that her phones were being monitored by law enforcement, the indictment alleged.